Day trip to Hermann and Swiss Missouri with perfect weather, gotta love it !

Where are we today ?

Lost Valley Lake Resort Owensville MO.

      Another great sleep last night and I thought I woke up at my usual time. My clock said 5:15 am perfect I thought. Got up, made coffee turned on my computer and the news from Ontario. Then about an hour later Suzie got up , Checked the time here in the Kitchen hmmm.. 5:15 am Guess I forgot to change my bedroom clock to the new time zone.  No problem we are morning people so got lotsa stuff done before the sun came up, just the way we like it. 

        About 7:30 I whipped to the Walmart in Owensville and picked up a few groceries. Back home before 9 am and Suzie had her shower and we can head on out.
         Today we want to go check out Hermann Missouri. There is 7 winery's ,1 distillery and 1 Micro brewery, wow we could spent days here ! Thats not our plan just want to check out the town. And it is a small town population 2,700 , now thats our style, no big cities for us. But it is a very touristy town too, Lotsa restaurants and gift shops. A lot of nice old buildings and German heritage is very prominent.

       The Tin Mill Brewery would have been nice to check out but not open yet. Maybe another time.

 Lots of German style pubs and restaurents.

Lewis and Clark crossed the Missouri river here in 1806

Amtrak train passing through town

Missouri River 

        Now to check out the Stone Hill Winery free tours and we arrived just as one was starting. The very interesting caverns(or whatever) for making and aging their wines. A very informative and interesting tour one of the best we have ever done.Tastings were offered at $5.00 per person but we passed, not really expensive wine drinkers. At 35 % exchange that would be over $13.00 Canadian just to sample their wines, besides it was 10:30 am.

interesting wine travel mug

lots f interesting wines here, but too expensive for us 

This is for the serious wine drinker,
Contessa you need one !

       Heading back home we had to stop at Swiss Sausage and Meats. We have been here a few times in the past and love all their products. We sampled lots and and enjoyed the tastings here, free! We like free.

           We did not leave empty handed as you can see below all chicken products except the Mini ham which is soo good, had it before.

stocking up again, but our freezer is only so big !

          Now heading back to camp, love the road names here all alphabet letters, our road is ZZ. Takes us to Lost Valley Lake. 

         Back home for lunch and did a load of laundry. Only had one load but how can you resist for only .75 cents to wash and .75 cents to dry. We good to go for a while again.
          With a beautiful sunny day and no wind we sat outside for a couple hours doing what we both enjoy, reading our e-readers, sure can't beat that, during our Happy hour.

        Of course while doing this fired up our Weber Q 100, grill a couple chicken thighs. Sure smells nice reading outside grilling chicken. Yep we love chicken.

the afternoon sun is going away but supper is done
time to head inside

2 acorn squash 1/4s and 2 chicken thighs

add a  fresh salad and did the trick

          That was our fun day relaxing and enjoy this wonderful weather and new places. Tomorrow back on the road heading west through Oklahoma and eventually southern Arizona at some point.

         Thanks for the visit and if you can find us drop on by. We friendly just take us as we are.

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Fall and Winter..

Illinois to Missouri, short travel day and settle in for 2 nights.

Where are we today ?

Lost Valley Lake, Owensville MO

      We  both got a good sleep last night but the time change got us! I was up at 3:30 this morning instead of 4:30, And Suzie at 5:30 instead of 6:30. But we made good use of our time. Computing, emails, coffees,walkabouts and by 7:40am we ready to hit the road. Not a long travel day compared to what we have been doing only 187 miles.

Today only 187 miles

           The day started off with drizzly rain again for a few hours, but by 10 am it had pretty well stopped. No wind today again so made good time, a very good travel day. Stopped at every rest area to get out and stretch, check our tires etc, then carry on. Feels good to stretch every hour or so, my back and legs love it. Not only that we drink a lot of water and it has to go somewhere.

couple hours like this, not much traffic
or scenery either

Wonder if Pocahontas is still there? 

      Then into Missouri before noon.

Our first sighting of the ARCH,
maybe someday we will check it out. 

construction going on there

wonderful roads and rolling hills 

This guy has his load covered as required,
but the tailgate is down?? HMM... 

Downtown Rosebud Missouri

         Passed a few gas stations with very cheap gas and this one was easy access for us, towing the car, so pulled in and topped up our tank.

$1.87.9 ($2.47.9 Canadian)
65 cents a litre, love it !

taking the 5 miles into the Campground 

        This the place, check out the link to Lost Valley Lake  (we found it, so its not lost anymore) if you care, click  HERE  it is amazing ! A membership campground that we can stay in 2 times a year up to 2 weeks at a time. Free for us, part of our membership. Fullhookups including 50 amp if you need it, and free high speed wifi. The facilities here are amazing too. But we are only staying 2 nights this time, have things we would like to do on down the road.

 

        We were checked in and all set up by noon. Time to make a light lunch and putter around. Few minor repairs just cause I can and have the time.

nice large sights 

nice view

the Lodge 

Beach and boathouse

Aquatics Centre 

Lake Expo

Boating lake 

Villas

Fort Wilderness

Over 70 rental trailers

        Lotsa people here and their big Halloween weekend is coming up, will be a zoo, glad we will not be here, already did that last weekend.

          Last Sunday we were busy and  Suzie missed her favorite tv show Madame Secretary. I found it on line and because of the free high speed wifi here she was able to watch her show! She a very happy lady now.

First time we have done this and worked wonderful

        The afternoon skies cleared and we had sunshine,  pretty warm temps too, perfect ! 

        As I was prepping supper she spotted  deer out the living room window not too far away. I did manage to get a quick shot, (not very good) before it headed into the woods.

see the deer?

       Supper tonight on our Weber Q (finally) grilled cod fish fillets and acorn squash to go with our tasty salad. 

nice to use our Weber again,
its been a few days 

yummy? Yes !

         A few things to do tomorrow and we head out Friday morning. Gonna be a wonderful day tomorrow so will make use of it.

         Glad that you dropped in and said hi. Hope your day was as good as ours was.

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Fall and Winter..